Joss Whedon Quotes - Page 11

Every day's a negotiation and sometimes it's done with guns.

I am the immaculate embodiment of worlds.

Smell is the most powerful trigger to the memory there is. A certain flower, or a-a whiff of smoke can bring up experiences long forgotten. Books smell musty and-and-and rich. The knowledge gained from a computer is a... it, uh, it has no-no texture, no-no context. It's-it's there and then it's gone. If it's to last, then-then the getting of knowledge should be, uh, tangible. It should be, um, smelly.

It's about women. It's about power and it's about women and you just hate those two words in the same sentence, don't you?

I think it's not inaccurate to say that I had a perfectly happy childhood during which I was very unhappy.

I don't think I'm a celebrity. Maybe I'm a cult figure?

I didn't know feminism was actually a thing until I left home and found out the country didn't run the way my mom's house did.

I don't have a particular ambition in any medium. I just want to keep telling stories. If somebody pays me, also good.

I can do web, comic books, macrame, art.

It's very important that we start creating new content again. We can only build on nostalgia so much before we have nothing left to build on.

When Roseanne read the first script of mine that got into her hands without being edited by someone else she said, 'How can you write a middle-aged woman this well?' I said, 'If you met my mom you wouldn't ask'.

I'm the least confident person in so many ways. But I believed that if somebody gave me the chance to tell a story, I would tell a story [well enough] that the person who gave me the chance would get their money back.

I go to movies expecting to have a whole experience. If I want a movie that doesn't end I'll go to a French movie. A movie has to be complete within itself, it can't just build off the first one or play variations.

You go to movies to see people you love suffer - that's why you go to the movies. You don't go to see a movie about a guy who already knows he has a wonderful life.

We had the camera locked, but not the location of the sun.

Scramblers deactivated, then? Well here's some good news. You feel no pain. You will go straight to a hospital. Remember nothing of this place. And every time you hear the words "parsley", "intractable" or "longitude", you will vomit uncontrollably for forty-eight hours.

Writers are completely out of touch with reality.

If I kill you, you'll be awake, you'll be facing me, and you'll be armed.

I did my English A level in England, and we studied Shakespeare. I had great, great high school teachers, and we parsed the text within an inch of its life.

I also don't trust Caribou anymore. They're out there, on the tundra, waiting... Something's going down. I'm right about this.

You know what? I was wrong. You are an idiot. My life happens to, on occasion, suck beyond the telling of it. Sometimes more than I can handle.

Tonight sucks. And look at me. Look at - look at stupid Buffy. Too dumb for college, and-and-and freak Buffy, too strong for construction work. And-and my job at the magic shop? I was bored to tears even before the hour that wouldn't end. And the only person that I can even stand to be around is a... neutered vampire who cheats at kitten poker.

If the apocalypse comes...beep me!

Someone else's loss is my chocolatey goodness

'You think we're dancing?' 'That's all we've ever done.'